X-Git-Url: https://git.rapsys.eu/youtubedl/blobdiff_plain/c4994c6aff3e03c7848b0a9d4ff9a1873412d31f..a8b640ed81fd63ade1773f4aa2f7808bc80175dd:/youtube_dl/utils.py?ds=sidebyside

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 44f9390..2864e51 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1,15 +1,33 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
+import calendar
+import codecs
+import contextlib
+import ctypes
+import datetime
+import email.utils
+import errno
+import getpass
 import gzip
+import itertools
 import io
+import json
 import locale
+import math
 import os
+import pipes
+import platform
 import re
+import ssl
+import socket
+import struct
+import subprocess
 import sys
+import tempfile
+import traceback
+import xml.etree.ElementTree
 import zlib
-import email.utils
-import json
 
 try:
     import urllib.request as compat_urllib_request
@@ -31,6 +49,11 @@ try:
 except ImportError: # Python 2
     from urlparse import urlparse as compat_urllib_parse_urlparse
 
+try:
+    import urllib.parse as compat_urlparse
+except ImportError: # Python 2
+    import urlparse as compat_urlparse
+
 try:
     import http.cookiejar as compat_cookiejar
 except ImportError: # Python 2
@@ -52,11 +75,26 @@ except ImportError: # Python 2
     import httplib as compat_http_client
 
 try:
-    from urllib.parse import parse_qs as compat_parse_qs
-except ImportError: # Python 2
-    # HACK: The following is the correct parse_qs implementation from cpython 3's stdlib.
-    # Python 2's version is apparently totally broken
-    def _unquote(string, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'):
+    from urllib.error import HTTPError as compat_HTTPError
+except ImportError:  # Python 2
+    from urllib2 import HTTPError as compat_HTTPError
+
+try:
+    from urllib.request import urlretrieve as compat_urlretrieve
+except ImportError:  # Python 2
+    from urllib import urlretrieve as compat_urlretrieve
+
+
+try:
+    from subprocess import DEVNULL
+    compat_subprocess_get_DEVNULL = lambda: DEVNULL
+except ImportError:
+    compat_subprocess_get_DEVNULL = lambda: open(os.path.devnull, 'w')
+
+try:
+    from urllib.parse import unquote as compat_urllib_parse_unquote
+except ImportError:
+    def compat_urllib_parse_unquote(string, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'):
         if string == '':
             return string
         res = string.split('%')
@@ -91,6 +129,13 @@ except ImportError: # Python 2
             string += pct_sequence.decode(encoding, errors)
         return string
 
+
+try:
+    from urllib.parse import parse_qs as compat_parse_qs
+except ImportError: # Python 2
+    # HACK: The following is the correct parse_qs implementation from cpython 3's stdlib.
+    # Python 2's version is apparently totally broken
+
     def _parse_qsl(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
                 encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'):
         qs, _coerce_result = qs, unicode
@@ -110,10 +155,12 @@ except ImportError: # Python 2
                     continue
             if len(nv[1]) or keep_blank_values:
                 name = nv[0].replace('+', ' ')
-                name = _unquote(name, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
+                name = compat_urllib_parse_unquote(
+                    name, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
                 name = _coerce_result(name)
                 value = nv[1].replace('+', ' ')
-                value = _unquote(value, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
+                value = compat_urllib_parse_unquote(
+                    value, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
                 value = _coerce_result(value)
                 r.append((name, value))
         return r
@@ -140,13 +187,109 @@ try:
 except NameError:
     compat_chr = chr
 
+try:
+    from xml.etree.ElementTree import ParseError as compat_xml_parse_error
+except ImportError:  # Python 2.6
+    from xml.parsers.expat import ExpatError as compat_xml_parse_error
+
+try:
+    from shlex import quote as shlex_quote
+except ImportError:  # Python < 3.3
+    def shlex_quote(s):
+        return "'" + s.replace("'", "'\"'\"'") + "'"
+
+
+def compat_ord(c):
+    if type(c) is int: return c
+    else: return ord(c)
+
+
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+    compat_getenv = os.getenv
+    compat_expanduser = os.path.expanduser
+else:
+    # Environment variables should be decoded with filesystem encoding.
+    # Otherwise it will fail if any non-ASCII characters present (see #3854 #3217 #2918)
+
+    def compat_getenv(key, default=None):
+        env = os.getenv(key, default)
+        if env:
+            env = env.decode(get_filesystem_encoding())
+        return env
+
+    # HACK: The default implementations of os.path.expanduser from cpython do not decode
+    # environment variables with filesystem encoding. We will work around this by
+    # providing adjusted implementations.
+    # The following are os.path.expanduser implementations from cpython 2.7.8 stdlib
+    # for different platforms with correct environment variables decoding.
+
+    if os.name == 'posix':
+        def compat_expanduser(path):
+            """Expand ~ and ~user constructions.  If user or $HOME is unknown,
+            do nothing."""
+            if not path.startswith('~'):
+                return path
+            i = path.find('/', 1)
+            if i < 0:
+                i = len(path)
+            if i == 1:
+                if 'HOME' not in os.environ:
+                    import pwd
+                    userhome = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid()).pw_dir
+                else:
+                    userhome = compat_getenv('HOME')
+            else:
+                import pwd
+                try:
+                    pwent = pwd.getpwnam(path[1:i])
+                except KeyError:
+                    return path
+                userhome = pwent.pw_dir
+            userhome = userhome.rstrip('/')
+            return (userhome + path[i:]) or '/'
+    elif os.name == 'nt' or os.name == 'ce':
+        def compat_expanduser(path):
+            """Expand ~ and ~user constructs.
+
+            If user or $HOME is unknown, do nothing."""
+            if path[:1] != '~':
+                return path
+            i, n = 1, len(path)
+            while i < n and path[i] not in '/\\':
+                i = i + 1
+
+            if 'HOME' in os.environ:
+                userhome = compat_getenv('HOME')
+            elif 'USERPROFILE' in os.environ:
+                userhome = compat_getenv('USERPROFILE')
+            elif not 'HOMEPATH' in os.environ:
+                return path
+            else:
+                try:
+                    drive = compat_getenv('HOMEDRIVE')
+                except KeyError:
+                    drive = ''
+                userhome = os.path.join(drive, compat_getenv('HOMEPATH'))
+
+            if i != 1: #~user
+                userhome = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(userhome), path[1:i])
+
+            return userhome + path[i:]
+    else:
+        compat_expanduser = os.path.expanduser
+
+
+# This is not clearly defined otherwise
+compiled_regex_type = type(re.compile(''))
+
 std_headers = {
-    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0',
+    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0 (Chrome)',
     'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7',
     'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
     'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
     'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5',
 }
+
 def preferredencoding():
     """Get preferred encoding.
 
@@ -169,43 +312,110 @@ else:
         assert type(s) == type(u'')
         print(s)
 
-def htmlentity_transform(matchobj):
-    """Transforms an HTML entity to a character.
 
-    This function receives a match object and is intended to be used with
-    the re.sub() function.
-    """
-    entity = matchobj.group(1)
+def write_json_file(obj, fn):
+    """ Encode obj as JSON and write it to fn, atomically """
 
-    # Known non-numeric HTML entity
-    if entity in compat_html_entities.name2codepoint:
-        return compat_chr(compat_html_entities.name2codepoint[entity])
+    args = {
+        'suffix': '.tmp',
+        'prefix': os.path.basename(fn) + '.',
+        'dir': os.path.dirname(fn),
+        'delete': False,
+    }
 
-    mobj = re.match(u'(?u)#(x?\\d+)', entity)
-    if mobj is not None:
-        numstr = mobj.group(1)
-        if numstr.startswith(u'x'):
-            base = 16
-            numstr = u'0%s' % numstr
+    # In Python 2.x, json.dump expects a bytestream.
+    # In Python 3.x, it writes to a character stream
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
+        args['mode'] = 'wb'
+    else:
+        args.update({
+            'mode': 'w',
+            'encoding': 'utf-8',
+        })
+
+    tf = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(**args)
+
+    try:
+        with tf:
+            json.dump(obj, tf)
+        os.rename(tf.name, fn)
+    except:
+        try:
+            os.remove(tf.name)
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+        raise
+
+
+if sys.version_info >= (2, 7):
+    def find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, key, val):
+        """ Find the xpath xpath[@key=val] """
+        assert re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z-]+$', key)
+        assert re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z0-9@\s:._-]*$', val)
+        expr = xpath + u"[@%s='%s']" % (key, val)
+        return node.find(expr)
+else:
+    def find_xpath_attr(node, xpath, key, val):
+        # Here comes the crazy part: In 2.6, if the xpath is a unicode,
+        # .//node does not match if a node is a direct child of . !
+        if isinstance(xpath, unicode):
+            xpath = xpath.encode('ascii')
+
+        for f in node.findall(xpath):
+            if f.attrib.get(key) == val:
+                return f
+        return None
+
+# On python2.6 the xml.etree.ElementTree.Element methods don't support
+# the namespace parameter
+def xpath_with_ns(path, ns_map):
+    components = [c.split(':') for c in path.split('/')]
+    replaced = []
+    for c in components:
+        if len(c) == 1:
+            replaced.append(c[0])
         else:
-            base = 10
-        return compat_chr(int(numstr, base))
+            ns, tag = c
+            replaced.append('{%s}%s' % (ns_map[ns], tag))
+    return '/'.join(replaced)
+
+
+def xpath_text(node, xpath, name=None, fatal=False):
+    if sys.version_info < (2, 7):  # Crazy 2.6
+        xpath = xpath.encode('ascii')
+
+    n = node.find(xpath)
+    if n is None:
+        if fatal:
+            name = xpath if name is None else name
+            raise ExtractorError('Could not find XML element %s' % name)
+        else:
+            return None
+    return n.text
 
-    # Unknown entity in name, return its literal representation
-    return (u'&%s;' % entity)
 
 compat_html_parser.locatestarttagend = re.compile(r"""<[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*(?:\s+(?:(?<=['"\s])[^\s/>][^\s/=>]*(?:\s*=+\s*(?:'[^']*'|"[^"]*"|(?!['"])[^>\s]*))?\s*)*)?\s*""", re.VERBOSE) # backport bugfix
-class IDParser(compat_html_parser.HTMLParser):
-    """Modified HTMLParser that isolates a tag with the specified id"""
-    def __init__(self, id):
-        self.id = id
+class BaseHTMLParser(compat_html_parser.HTMLParser):
+    def __init(self):
+        compat_html_parser.HTMLParser.__init__(self)
+        self.html = None
+
+    def loads(self, html):
+        self.html = html
+        self.feed(html)
+        self.close()
+
+class AttrParser(BaseHTMLParser):
+    """Modified HTMLParser that isolates a tag with the specified attribute"""
+    def __init__(self, attribute, value):
+        self.attribute = attribute
+        self.value = value
         self.result = None
         self.started = False
         self.depth = {}
-        self.html = None
         self.watch_startpos = False
         self.error_count = 0
-        compat_html_parser.HTMLParser.__init__(self)
+        BaseHTMLParser.__init__(self)
 
     def error(self, message):
         if self.error_count > 10 or self.started:
@@ -214,16 +424,11 @@ class IDParser(compat_html_parser.HTMLParser):
         self.error_count += 1
         self.goahead(1)
 
-    def loads(self, html):
-        self.html = html
-        self.feed(html)
-        self.close()
-
     def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
         attrs = dict(attrs)
         if self.started:
             self.find_startpos(None)
-        if 'id' in attrs and attrs['id'] == self.id:
+        if self.attribute in attrs and attrs[self.attribute] == self.value:
             self.result = [tag]
             self.started = True
             self.watch_startpos = True
@@ -259,10 +464,52 @@ class IDParser(compat_html_parser.HTMLParser):
             lines[-1] = lines[-1][:self.result[2][1]-self.result[1][1]]
         lines[-1] = lines[-1][:self.result[2][1]]
         return '\n'.join(lines).strip()
+# Hack for https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/662
+if sys.version_info < (2, 7, 3):
+    AttrParser.parse_endtag = (lambda self, i:
+        i + len("</scr'+'ipt>")
+        if self.rawdata[i:].startswith("</scr'+'ipt>")
+        else compat_html_parser.HTMLParser.parse_endtag(self, i))
 
 def get_element_by_id(id, html):
-    """Return the content of the tag with the specified id in the passed HTML document"""
-    parser = IDParser(id)
+    """Return the content of the tag with the specified ID in the passed HTML document"""
+    return get_element_by_attribute("id", id, html)
+
+def get_element_by_attribute(attribute, value, html):
+    """Return the content of the tag with the specified attribute in the passed HTML document"""
+    parser = AttrParser(attribute, value)
+    try:
+        parser.loads(html)
+    except compat_html_parser.HTMLParseError:
+        pass
+    return parser.get_result()
+
+class MetaParser(BaseHTMLParser):
+    """
+    Modified HTMLParser that isolates a meta tag with the specified name 
+    attribute.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, name):
+        BaseHTMLParser.__init__(self)
+        self.name = name
+        self.content = None
+        self.result = None
+
+    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
+        if tag != 'meta':
+            return
+        attrs = dict(attrs)
+        if attrs.get('name') == self.name:
+            self.result = attrs.get('content')
+
+    def get_result(self):
+        return self.result
+
+def get_meta_content(name, html):
+    """
+    Return the content attribute from the meta tag with the given name attribute.
+    """
+    parser = MetaParser(name)
     try:
         parser.loads(html)
     except compat_html_parser.HTMLParseError:
@@ -274,12 +521,13 @@ def clean_html(html):
     """Clean an HTML snippet into a readable string"""
     # Newline vs <br />
     html = html.replace('\n', ' ')
-    html = re.sub('\s*<\s*br\s*/?\s*>\s*', '\n', html)
+    html = re.sub(r'\s*<\s*br\s*/?\s*>\s*', '\n', html)
+    html = re.sub(r'<\s*/\s*p\s*>\s*<\s*p[^>]*>', '\n', html)
     # Strip html tags
     html = re.sub('<.*?>', '', html)
     # Replace html entities
     html = unescapeHTML(html)
-    return html
+    return html.strip()
 
 
 def sanitize_open(filename, open_mode):
@@ -297,16 +545,24 @@ def sanitize_open(filename, open_mode):
             if sys.platform == 'win32':
                 import msvcrt
                 msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
-            return (sys.stdout, filename)
+            return (sys.stdout.buffer if hasattr(sys.stdout, 'buffer') else sys.stdout, filename)
         stream = open(encodeFilename(filename), open_mode)
         return (stream, filename)
     except (IOError, OSError) as err:
-        # In case of error, try to remove win32 forbidden chars
-        filename = re.sub(u'[/<>:"\\|\\\\?\\*]', u'#', filename)
+        if err.errno in (errno.EACCES,):
+            raise
 
-        # An exception here should be caught in the caller
-        stream = open(encodeFilename(filename), open_mode)
-        return (stream, filename)
+        # In case of error, try to remove win32 forbidden chars
+        alt_filename = os.path.join(
+                        re.sub(u'[/<>:"\\|\\\\?\\*]', u'#', path_part)
+                        for path_part in os.path.split(filename)
+                       )
+        if alt_filename == filename:
+            raise
+        else:
+            # An exception here should be caught in the caller
+            stream = open(encodeFilename(filename), open_mode)
+            return (stream, alt_filename)
 
 
 def timeconvert(timestr):
@@ -357,21 +613,42 @@ def orderedSet(iterable):
             res.append(el)
     return res
 
+
+def _htmlentity_transform(entity):
+    """Transforms an HTML entity to a character."""
+    # Known non-numeric HTML entity
+    if entity in compat_html_entities.name2codepoint:
+        return compat_chr(compat_html_entities.name2codepoint[entity])
+
+    mobj = re.match(r'#(x?[0-9]+)', entity)
+    if mobj is not None:
+        numstr = mobj.group(1)
+        if numstr.startswith(u'x'):
+            base = 16
+            numstr = u'0%s' % numstr
+        else:
+            base = 10
+        return compat_chr(int(numstr, base))
+
+    # Unknown entity in name, return its literal representation
+    return (u'&%s;' % entity)
+
+
 def unescapeHTML(s):
-    """
-    @param s a string
-    """
-    assert type(s) == type(u'')
+    if s is None:
+        return None
+    assert type(s) == compat_str
 
-    result = re.sub(u'(?u)&(.+?);', htmlentity_transform, s)
-    return result
+    return re.sub(
+        r'&([^;]+);', lambda m: _htmlentity_transform(m.group(1)), s)
 
-def encodeFilename(s):
+
+def encodeFilename(s, for_subprocess=False):
     """
     @param s The name of the file
     """
 
-    assert type(s) == type(u'')
+    assert type(s) == compat_str
 
     # Python 3 has a Unicode API
     if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
@@ -381,9 +658,118 @@ def encodeFilename(s):
         # Pass u'' directly to use Unicode APIs on Windows 2000 and up
         # (Detecting Windows NT 4 is tricky because 'major >= 4' would
         # match Windows 9x series as well. Besides, NT 4 is obsolete.)
-        return s
+        if not for_subprocess:
+            return s
+        else:
+            # For subprocess calls, encode with locale encoding
+            # Refer to http://stackoverflow.com/a/9951851/35070
+            encoding = preferredencoding()
+    else:
+        encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+    if encoding is None:
+        encoding = 'utf-8'
+    return s.encode(encoding, 'ignore')
+
+
+def encodeArgument(s):
+    if not isinstance(s, compat_str):
+        # Legacy code that uses byte strings
+        # Uncomment the following line after fixing all post processors
+        #assert False, 'Internal error: %r should be of type %r, is %r' % (s, compat_str, type(s))
+        s = s.decode('ascii')
+    return encodeFilename(s, True)
+
+
+def decodeOption(optval):
+    if optval is None:
+        return optval
+    if isinstance(optval, bytes):
+        optval = optval.decode(preferredencoding())
+
+    assert isinstance(optval, compat_str)
+    return optval
+
+def formatSeconds(secs):
+    if secs > 3600:
+        return '%d:%02d:%02d' % (secs // 3600, (secs % 3600) // 60, secs % 60)
+    elif secs > 60:
+        return '%d:%02d' % (secs // 60, secs % 60)
     else:
-        return s.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'ignore')
+        return '%d' % secs
+
+
+def make_HTTPS_handler(opts_no_check_certificate, **kwargs):
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 2):
+        import httplib
+
+        class HTTPSConnectionV3(httplib.HTTPSConnection):
+            def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+                httplib.HTTPSConnection.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+
+            def connect(self):
+                sock = socket.create_connection((self.host, self.port), self.timeout)
+                if getattr(self, '_tunnel_host', False):
+                    self.sock = sock
+                    self._tunnel()
+                try:
+                    self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file, ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
+                except ssl.SSLError:
+                    self.sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file, ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)
+
+        class HTTPSHandlerV3(compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler):
+            def https_open(self, req):
+                return self.do_open(HTTPSConnectionV3, req)
+        return HTTPSHandlerV3(**kwargs)
+    elif hasattr(ssl, 'create_default_context'):  # Python >= 3.4
+        context = ssl.create_default_context(ssl.Purpose.CLIENT_AUTH)
+        context.options &= ~ssl.OP_NO_SSLv3  # Allow older, not-as-secure SSLv3
+        if opts_no_check_certificate:
+            context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE
+        return compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler(context=context, **kwargs)
+    else:  # Python < 3.4
+        context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)
+        context.verify_mode = (ssl.CERT_NONE
+                               if opts_no_check_certificate
+                               else ssl.CERT_REQUIRED)
+        context.set_default_verify_paths()
+        try:
+            context.load_default_certs()
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass  # Python < 3.4
+        return compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler(context=context, **kwargs)
+
+class ExtractorError(Exception):
+    """Error during info extraction."""
+    def __init__(self, msg, tb=None, expected=False, cause=None, video_id=None):
+        """ tb, if given, is the original traceback (so that it can be printed out).
+        If expected is set, this is a normal error message and most likely not a bug in youtube-dl.
+        """
+
+        if sys.exc_info()[0] in (compat_urllib_error.URLError, socket.timeout, UnavailableVideoError):
+            expected = True
+        if video_id is not None:
+            msg = video_id + ': ' + msg
+        if cause:
+            msg += u' (caused by %r)' % cause
+        if not expected:
+            msg = msg + u'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.'
+        super(ExtractorError, self).__init__(msg)
+
+        self.traceback = tb
+        self.exc_info = sys.exc_info()  # preserve original exception
+        self.cause = cause
+        self.video_id = video_id
+
+    def format_traceback(self):
+        if self.traceback is None:
+            return None
+        return u''.join(traceback.format_tb(self.traceback))
+
+
+class RegexNotFoundError(ExtractorError):
+    """Error when a regex didn't match"""
+    pass
+
 
 class DownloadError(Exception):
     """Download Error exception.
@@ -392,7 +778,10 @@ class DownloadError(Exception):
     configured to continue on errors. They will contain the appropriate
     error message.
     """
-    pass
+    def __init__(self, msg, exc_info=None):
+        """ exc_info, if given, is the original exception that caused the trouble (as returned by sys.exc_info()). """
+        super(DownloadError, self).__init__(msg)
+        self.exc_info = exc_info
 
 
 class SameFileError(Exception):
@@ -410,7 +799,8 @@ class PostProcessingError(Exception):
     This exception may be raised by PostProcessor's .run() method to
     indicate an error in the postprocessing task.
     """
-    pass
+    def __init__(self, msg):
+        self.msg = msg
 
 class MaxDownloadsReached(Exception):
     """ --max-downloads limit has been reached. """
@@ -441,14 +831,6 @@ class ContentTooShortError(Exception):
         self.downloaded = downloaded
         self.expected = expected
 
-
-class Trouble(Exception):
-    """Trouble helper exception
-
-    This is an exception to be handled with
-    FileDownloader.trouble
-    """
-
 class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
     """Handler for HTTP requests and responses.
 
@@ -483,22 +865,47 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
         return ret
 
     def http_request(self, req):
-        for h in std_headers:
-            if h in req.headers:
-                del req.headers[h]
-            req.add_header(h, std_headers[h])
+        for h, v in std_headers.items():
+            if h not in req.headers:
+                req.add_header(h, v)
         if 'Youtubedl-no-compression' in req.headers:
             if 'Accept-encoding' in req.headers:
                 del req.headers['Accept-encoding']
             del req.headers['Youtubedl-no-compression']
+        if 'Youtubedl-user-agent' in req.headers:
+            if 'User-agent' in req.headers:
+                del req.headers['User-agent']
+            req.headers['User-agent'] = req.headers['Youtubedl-user-agent']
+            del req.headers['Youtubedl-user-agent']
+
+        if sys.version_info < (2, 7) and '#' in req.get_full_url():
+            # Python 2.6 is brain-dead when it comes to fragments
+            req._Request__original = req._Request__original.partition('#')[0]
+            req._Request__r_type = req._Request__r_type.partition('#')[0]
+
         return req
 
     def http_response(self, req, resp):
         old_resp = resp
         # gzip
         if resp.headers.get('Content-encoding', '') == 'gzip':
-            gz = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=io.BytesIO(resp.read()), mode='r')
-            resp = self.addinfourl_wrapper(gz, old_resp.headers, old_resp.url, old_resp.code)
+            content = resp.read()
+            gz = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=io.BytesIO(content), mode='rb')
+            try:
+                uncompressed = io.BytesIO(gz.read())
+            except IOError as original_ioerror:
+                # There may be junk add the end of the file
+                # See http://stackoverflow.com/q/4928560/35070 for details
+                for i in range(1, 1024):
+                    try:
+                        gz = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=io.BytesIO(content[:-i]), mode='rb')
+                        uncompressed = io.BytesIO(gz.read())
+                    except IOError:
+                        continue
+                    break
+                else:
+                    raise original_ioerror
+            resp = self.addinfourl_wrapper(uncompressed, old_resp.headers, old_resp.url, old_resp.code)
             resp.msg = old_resp.msg
         # deflate
         if resp.headers.get('Content-encoding', '') == 'deflate':
@@ -509,3 +916,823 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
 
     https_request = http_request
     https_response = http_response
+
+
+def parse_iso8601(date_str, delimiter='T'):
+    """ Return a UNIX timestamp from the given date """
+
+    if date_str is None:
+        return None
+
+    m = re.search(
+        r'(\.[0-9]+)?(?:Z$| ?(?P<sign>\+|-)(?P<hours>[0-9]{2}):?(?P<minutes>[0-9]{2})$)',
+        date_str)
+    if not m:
+        timezone = datetime.timedelta()
+    else:
+        date_str = date_str[:-len(m.group(0))]
+        if not m.group('sign'):
+            timezone = datetime.timedelta()
+        else:
+            sign = 1 if m.group('sign') == '+' else -1
+            timezone = datetime.timedelta(
+                hours=sign * int(m.group('hours')),
+                minutes=sign * int(m.group('minutes')))
+    date_format = '%Y-%m-%d{0}%H:%M:%S'.format(delimiter)
+    dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, date_format) - timezone
+    return calendar.timegm(dt.timetuple())
+
+
+def unified_strdate(date_str):
+    """Return a string with the date in the format YYYYMMDD"""
+
+    if date_str is None:
+        return None
+
+    upload_date = None
+    #Replace commas
+    date_str = date_str.replace(',', ' ')
+    # %z (UTC offset) is only supported in python>=3.2
+    date_str = re.sub(r' ?(\+|-)[0-9]{2}:?[0-9]{2}$', '', date_str)
+    format_expressions = [
+        '%d %B %Y',
+        '%d %b %Y',
+        '%B %d %Y',
+        '%b %d %Y',
+        '%b %dst %Y %I:%M%p',
+        '%b %dnd %Y %I:%M%p',
+        '%b %dth %Y %I:%M%p',
+        '%Y-%m-%d',
+        '%Y/%m/%d',
+        '%d.%m.%Y',
+        '%d/%m/%Y',
+        '%d/%m/%y',
+        '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S',
+        '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S',
+        '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',
+        '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f',
+        '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M',
+        '%d.%m.%Y %H.%M',
+        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ',
+        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ',
+        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f0Z',
+        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S',
+        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f',
+        '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M',
+    ]
+    for expression in format_expressions:
+        try:
+            upload_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, expression).strftime('%Y%m%d')
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+    if upload_date is None:
+        timetuple = email.utils.parsedate_tz(date_str)
+        if timetuple:
+            upload_date = datetime.datetime(*timetuple[:6]).strftime('%Y%m%d')
+    return upload_date
+
+def determine_ext(url, default_ext=u'unknown_video'):
+    if url is None:
+        return default_ext
+    guess = url.partition(u'?')[0].rpartition(u'.')[2]
+    if re.match(r'^[A-Za-z0-9]+$', guess):
+        return guess
+    else:
+        return default_ext
+
+def subtitles_filename(filename, sub_lang, sub_format):
+    return filename.rsplit('.', 1)[0] + u'.' + sub_lang + u'.' + sub_format
+
+def date_from_str(date_str):
+    """
+    Return a datetime object from a string in the format YYYYMMDD or
+    (now|today)[+-][0-9](day|week|month|year)(s)?"""
+    today = datetime.date.today()
+    if date_str == 'now'or date_str == 'today':
+        return today
+    match = re.match('(now|today)(?P<sign>[+-])(?P<time>\d+)(?P<unit>day|week|month|year)(s)?', date_str)
+    if match is not None:
+        sign = match.group('sign')
+        time = int(match.group('time'))
+        if sign == '-':
+            time = -time
+        unit = match.group('unit')
+        #A bad aproximation?
+        if unit == 'month':
+            unit = 'day'
+            time *= 30
+        elif unit == 'year':
+            unit = 'day'
+            time *= 365
+        unit += 's'
+        delta = datetime.timedelta(**{unit: time})
+        return today + delta
+    return datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, "%Y%m%d").date()
+    
+def hyphenate_date(date_str):
+    """
+    Convert a date in 'YYYYMMDD' format to 'YYYY-MM-DD' format"""
+    match = re.match(r'^(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)$', date_str)
+    if match is not None:
+        return '-'.join(match.groups())
+    else:
+        return date_str
+
+class DateRange(object):
+    """Represents a time interval between two dates"""
+    def __init__(self, start=None, end=None):
+        """start and end must be strings in the format accepted by date"""
+        if start is not None:
+            self.start = date_from_str(start)
+        else:
+            self.start = datetime.datetime.min.date()
+        if end is not None:
+            self.end = date_from_str(end)
+        else:
+            self.end = datetime.datetime.max.date()
+        if self.start > self.end:
+            raise ValueError('Date range: "%s" , the start date must be before the end date' % self)
+    @classmethod
+    def day(cls, day):
+        """Returns a range that only contains the given day"""
+        return cls(day,day)
+    def __contains__(self, date):
+        """Check if the date is in the range"""
+        if not isinstance(date, datetime.date):
+            date = date_from_str(date)
+        return self.start <= date <= self.end
+    def __str__(self):
+        return '%s - %s' % ( self.start.isoformat(), self.end.isoformat())
+
+
+def platform_name():
+    """ Returns the platform name as a compat_str """
+    res = platform.platform()
+    if isinstance(res, bytes):
+        res = res.decode(preferredencoding())
+
+    assert isinstance(res, compat_str)
+    return res
+
+
+def _windows_write_string(s, out):
+    """ Returns True if the string was written using special methods,
+    False if it has yet to be written out."""
+    # Adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/a/3259271/35070
+
+    import ctypes
+    import ctypes.wintypes
+
+    WIN_OUTPUT_IDS = {
+        1: -11,
+        2: -12,
+    }
+
+    try:
+        fileno = out.fileno()
+    except AttributeError:
+        # If the output stream doesn't have a fileno, it's virtual
+        return False
+    if fileno not in WIN_OUTPUT_IDS:
+        return False
+
+    GetStdHandle = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(
+        ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD)(
+        ("GetStdHandle", ctypes.windll.kernel32))
+    h = GetStdHandle(WIN_OUTPUT_IDS[fileno])
+
+    WriteConsoleW = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(
+        ctypes.wintypes.BOOL, ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE, ctypes.wintypes.LPWSTR,
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD, ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.wintypes.DWORD),
+        ctypes.wintypes.LPVOID)(("WriteConsoleW", ctypes.windll.kernel32))
+    written = ctypes.wintypes.DWORD(0)
+
+    GetFileType = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(ctypes.wintypes.DWORD, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD)(("GetFileType", ctypes.windll.kernel32))
+    FILE_TYPE_CHAR = 0x0002
+    FILE_TYPE_REMOTE = 0x8000
+    GetConsoleMode = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(
+        ctypes.wintypes.BOOL, ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE,
+        ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.wintypes.DWORD))(
+        ("GetConsoleMode", ctypes.windll.kernel32))
+    INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = ctypes.wintypes.DWORD(-1).value
+
+    def not_a_console(handle):
+        if handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE or handle is None:
+            return True
+        return ((GetFileType(handle) & ~FILE_TYPE_REMOTE) != FILE_TYPE_CHAR
+                or GetConsoleMode(handle, ctypes.byref(ctypes.wintypes.DWORD())) == 0)
+
+    if not_a_console(h):
+        return False
+
+    def next_nonbmp_pos(s):
+        try:
+            return next(i for i, c in enumerate(s) if ord(c) > 0xffff)
+        except StopIteration:
+            return len(s)
+
+    while s:
+        count = min(next_nonbmp_pos(s), 1024)
+
+        ret = WriteConsoleW(
+            h, s, count if count else 2, ctypes.byref(written), None)
+        if ret == 0:
+            raise OSError('Failed to write string')
+        if not count:  # We just wrote a non-BMP character
+            assert written.value == 2
+            s = s[1:]
+        else:
+            assert written.value > 0
+            s = s[written.value:]
+    return True
+
+
+def write_string(s, out=None, encoding=None):
+    if out is None:
+        out = sys.stderr
+    assert type(s) == compat_str
+
+    if sys.platform == 'win32' and encoding is None and hasattr(out, 'fileno'):
+        if _windows_write_string(s, out):
+            return
+
+    if ('b' in getattr(out, 'mode', '') or
+            sys.version_info[0] < 3):  # Python 2 lies about mode of sys.stderr
+        byt = s.encode(encoding or preferredencoding(), 'ignore')
+        out.write(byt)
+    elif hasattr(out, 'buffer'):
+        enc = encoding or getattr(out, 'encoding', None) or preferredencoding()
+        byt = s.encode(enc, 'ignore')
+        out.buffer.write(byt)
+    else:
+        out.write(s)
+    out.flush()
+
+
+def bytes_to_intlist(bs):
+    if not bs:
+        return []
+    if isinstance(bs[0], int):  # Python 3
+        return list(bs)
+    else:
+        return [ord(c) for c in bs]
+
+
+def intlist_to_bytes(xs):
+    if not xs:
+        return b''
+    if isinstance(chr(0), bytes):  # Python 2
+        return ''.join([chr(x) for x in xs])
+    else:
+        return bytes(xs)
+
+
+# Cross-platform file locking
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+    import ctypes.wintypes
+    import msvcrt
+
+    class OVERLAPPED(ctypes.Structure):
+        _fields_ = [
+            ('Internal', ctypes.wintypes.LPVOID),
+            ('InternalHigh', ctypes.wintypes.LPVOID),
+            ('Offset', ctypes.wintypes.DWORD),
+            ('OffsetHigh', ctypes.wintypes.DWORD),
+            ('hEvent', ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE),
+        ]
+
+    kernel32 = ctypes.windll.kernel32
+    LockFileEx = kernel32.LockFileEx
+    LockFileEx.argtypes = [
+        ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE,     # hFile
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # dwFlags
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # dwReserved
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # nNumberOfBytesToLockLow
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # nNumberOfBytesToLockHigh
+        ctypes.POINTER(OVERLAPPED)  # Overlapped
+    ]
+    LockFileEx.restype = ctypes.wintypes.BOOL
+    UnlockFileEx = kernel32.UnlockFileEx
+    UnlockFileEx.argtypes = [
+        ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE,     # hFile
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # dwReserved
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # nNumberOfBytesToLockLow
+        ctypes.wintypes.DWORD,      # nNumberOfBytesToLockHigh
+        ctypes.POINTER(OVERLAPPED)  # Overlapped
+    ]
+    UnlockFileEx.restype = ctypes.wintypes.BOOL
+    whole_low = 0xffffffff
+    whole_high = 0x7fffffff
+
+    def _lock_file(f, exclusive):
+        overlapped = OVERLAPPED()
+        overlapped.Offset = 0
+        overlapped.OffsetHigh = 0
+        overlapped.hEvent = 0
+        f._lock_file_overlapped_p = ctypes.pointer(overlapped)
+        handle = msvcrt.get_osfhandle(f.fileno())
+        if not LockFileEx(handle, 0x2 if exclusive else 0x0, 0,
+                          whole_low, whole_high, f._lock_file_overlapped_p):
+            raise OSError('Locking file failed: %r' % ctypes.FormatError())
+
+    def _unlock_file(f):
+        assert f._lock_file_overlapped_p
+        handle = msvcrt.get_osfhandle(f.fileno())
+        if not UnlockFileEx(handle, 0,
+                            whole_low, whole_high, f._lock_file_overlapped_p):
+            raise OSError('Unlocking file failed: %r' % ctypes.FormatError())
+
+else:
+    import fcntl
+
+    def _lock_file(f, exclusive):
+        fcntl.flock(f, fcntl.LOCK_EX if exclusive else fcntl.LOCK_SH)
+
+    def _unlock_file(f):
+        fcntl.flock(f, fcntl.LOCK_UN)
+
+
+class locked_file(object):
+    def __init__(self, filename, mode, encoding=None):
+        assert mode in ['r', 'a', 'w']
+        self.f = io.open(filename, mode, encoding=encoding)
+        self.mode = mode
+
+    def __enter__(self):
+        exclusive = self.mode != 'r'
+        try:
+            _lock_file(self.f, exclusive)
+        except IOError:
+            self.f.close()
+            raise
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, etype, value, traceback):
+        try:
+            _unlock_file(self.f)
+        finally:
+            self.f.close()
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return iter(self.f)
+
+    def write(self, *args):
+        return self.f.write(*args)
+
+    def read(self, *args):
+        return self.f.read(*args)
+
+
+def get_filesystem_encoding():
+    encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+    return encoding if encoding is not None else 'utf-8'
+
+
+def shell_quote(args):
+    quoted_args = []
+    encoding = get_filesystem_encoding()
+    for a in args:
+        if isinstance(a, bytes):
+            # We may get a filename encoded with 'encodeFilename'
+            a = a.decode(encoding)
+        quoted_args.append(pipes.quote(a))
+    return u' '.join(quoted_args)
+
+
+def takewhile_inclusive(pred, seq):
+    """ Like itertools.takewhile, but include the latest evaluated element
+        (the first element so that Not pred(e)) """
+    for e in seq:
+        yield e
+        if not pred(e):
+            return
+
+
+def smuggle_url(url, data):
+    """ Pass additional data in a URL for internal use. """
+
+    sdata = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(
+        {u'__youtubedl_smuggle': json.dumps(data)})
+    return url + u'#' + sdata
+
+
+def unsmuggle_url(smug_url, default=None):
+    if not '#__youtubedl_smuggle' in smug_url:
+        return smug_url, default
+    url, _, sdata = smug_url.rpartition(u'#')
+    jsond = compat_parse_qs(sdata)[u'__youtubedl_smuggle'][0]
+    data = json.loads(jsond)
+    return url, data
+
+
+def format_bytes(bytes):
+    if bytes is None:
+        return u'N/A'
+    if type(bytes) is str:
+        bytes = float(bytes)
+    if bytes == 0.0:
+        exponent = 0
+    else:
+        exponent = int(math.log(bytes, 1024.0))
+    suffix = [u'B', u'KiB', u'MiB', u'GiB', u'TiB', u'PiB', u'EiB', u'ZiB', u'YiB'][exponent]
+    converted = float(bytes) / float(1024 ** exponent)
+    return u'%.2f%s' % (converted, suffix)
+
+
+def get_term_width():
+    columns = compat_getenv('COLUMNS', None)
+    if columns:
+        return int(columns)
+
+    try:
+        sp = subprocess.Popen(
+            ['stty', 'size'],
+            stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+        out, err = sp.communicate()
+        return int(out.split()[1])
+    except:
+        pass
+    return None
+
+
+def month_by_name(name):
+    """ Return the number of a month by (locale-independently) English name """
+
+    ENGLISH_NAMES = [
+        u'January', u'February', u'March', u'April', u'May', u'June',
+        u'July', u'August', u'September', u'October', u'November', u'December']
+    try:
+        return ENGLISH_NAMES.index(name) + 1
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+
+
+def fix_xml_ampersands(xml_str):
+    """Replace all the '&' by '&amp;' in XML"""
+    return re.sub(
+        r'&(?!amp;|lt;|gt;|apos;|quot;|#x[0-9a-fA-F]{,4};|#[0-9]{,4};)',
+        u'&amp;',
+        xml_str)
+
+
+def setproctitle(title):
+    assert isinstance(title, compat_str)
+    try:
+        libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6")
+    except OSError:
+        return
+    title_bytes = title.encode('utf-8')
+    buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(title_bytes))
+    buf.value = title_bytes
+    try:
+        libc.prctl(15, buf, 0, 0, 0)
+    except AttributeError:
+        return  # Strange libc, just skip this
+
+
+def remove_start(s, start):
+    if s.startswith(start):
+        return s[len(start):]
+    return s
+
+
+def remove_end(s, end):
+    if s.endswith(end):
+        return s[:-len(end)]
+    return s
+
+
+def url_basename(url):
+    path = compat_urlparse.urlparse(url).path
+    return path.strip(u'/').split(u'/')[-1]
+
+
+class HEADRequest(compat_urllib_request.Request):
+    def get_method(self):
+        return "HEAD"
+
+
+def int_or_none(v, scale=1, default=None, get_attr=None, invscale=1):
+    if get_attr:
+        if v is not None:
+            v = getattr(v, get_attr, None)
+    if v == '':
+        v = None
+    return default if v is None else (int(v) * invscale // scale)
+
+
+def str_or_none(v, default=None):
+    return default if v is None else compat_str(v)
+
+
+def str_to_int(int_str):
+    """ A more relaxed version of int_or_none """
+    if int_str is None:
+        return None
+    int_str = re.sub(r'[,\.\+]', u'', int_str)
+    return int(int_str)
+
+
+def float_or_none(v, scale=1, invscale=1, default=None):
+    return default if v is None else (float(v) * invscale / scale)
+
+
+def parse_duration(s):
+    if s is None:
+        return None
+
+    s = s.strip()
+
+    m = re.match(
+        r'(?i)(?:(?:(?P<hours>[0-9]+)\s*(?:[:h]|hours?)\s*)?(?P<mins>[0-9]+)\s*(?:[:m]|mins?|minutes?)\s*)?(?P<secs>[0-9]+)(?P<ms>\.[0-9]+)?\s*(?:s|secs?|seconds?)?$', s)
+    if not m:
+        return None
+    res = int(m.group('secs'))
+    if m.group('mins'):
+        res += int(m.group('mins')) * 60
+        if m.group('hours'):
+            res += int(m.group('hours')) * 60 * 60
+    if m.group('ms'):
+        res += float(m.group('ms'))
+    return res
+
+
+def prepend_extension(filename, ext):
+    name, real_ext = os.path.splitext(filename) 
+    return u'{0}.{1}{2}'.format(name, ext, real_ext)
+
+
+def check_executable(exe, args=[]):
+    """ Checks if the given binary is installed somewhere in PATH, and returns its name.
+    args can be a list of arguments for a short output (like -version) """
+    try:
+        subprocess.Popen([exe] + args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+    return exe
+
+
+class PagedList(object):
+    def __len__(self):
+        # This is only useful for tests
+        return len(self.getslice())
+
+
+class OnDemandPagedList(PagedList):
+    def __init__(self, pagefunc, pagesize):
+        self._pagefunc = pagefunc
+        self._pagesize = pagesize
+
+    def getslice(self, start=0, end=None):
+        res = []
+        for pagenum in itertools.count(start // self._pagesize):
+            firstid = pagenum * self._pagesize
+            nextfirstid = pagenum * self._pagesize + self._pagesize
+            if start >= nextfirstid:
+                continue
+
+            page_results = list(self._pagefunc(pagenum))
+
+            startv = (
+                start % self._pagesize
+                if firstid <= start < nextfirstid
+                else 0)
+
+            endv = (
+                ((end - 1) % self._pagesize) + 1
+                if (end is not None and firstid <= end <= nextfirstid)
+                else None)
+
+            if startv != 0 or endv is not None:
+                page_results = page_results[startv:endv]
+            res.extend(page_results)
+
+            # A little optimization - if current page is not "full", ie. does
+            # not contain page_size videos then we can assume that this page
+            # is the last one - there are no more ids on further pages -
+            # i.e. no need to query again.
+            if len(page_results) + startv < self._pagesize:
+                break
+
+            # If we got the whole page, but the next page is not interesting,
+            # break out early as well
+            if end == nextfirstid:
+                break
+        return res
+
+
+class InAdvancePagedList(PagedList):
+    def __init__(self, pagefunc, pagecount, pagesize):
+        self._pagefunc = pagefunc
+        self._pagecount = pagecount
+        self._pagesize = pagesize
+
+    def getslice(self, start=0, end=None):
+        res = []
+        start_page = start // self._pagesize
+        end_page = (
+            self._pagecount if end is None else (end // self._pagesize + 1))
+        skip_elems = start - start_page * self._pagesize
+        only_more = None if end is None else end - start
+        for pagenum in range(start_page, end_page):
+            page = list(self._pagefunc(pagenum))
+            if skip_elems:
+                page = page[skip_elems:]
+                skip_elems = None
+            if only_more is not None:
+                if len(page) < only_more:
+                    only_more -= len(page)
+                else:
+                    page = page[:only_more]
+                    res.extend(page)
+                    break
+            res.extend(page)
+        return res
+
+
+def uppercase_escape(s):
+    unicode_escape = codecs.getdecoder('unicode_escape')
+    return re.sub(
+        r'\\U[0-9a-fA-F]{8}',
+        lambda m: unicode_escape(m.group(0))[0],
+        s)
+
+
+def escape_rfc3986(s):
+    """Escape non-ASCII characters as suggested by RFC 3986"""
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0) and isinstance(s, unicode):
+        s = s.encode('utf-8')
+    return compat_urllib_parse.quote(s, "%/;:@&=+$,!~*'()?#[]")
+
+
+def escape_url(url):
+    """Escape URL as suggested by RFC 3986"""
+    url_parsed = compat_urllib_parse_urlparse(url)
+    return url_parsed._replace(
+        path=escape_rfc3986(url_parsed.path),
+        params=escape_rfc3986(url_parsed.params),
+        query=escape_rfc3986(url_parsed.query),
+        fragment=escape_rfc3986(url_parsed.fragment)
+    ).geturl()
+
+try:
+    struct.pack(u'!I', 0)
+except TypeError:
+    # In Python 2.6 (and some 2.7 versions), struct requires a bytes argument
+    def struct_pack(spec, *args):
+        if isinstance(spec, compat_str):
+            spec = spec.encode('ascii')
+        return struct.pack(spec, *args)
+
+    def struct_unpack(spec, *args):
+        if isinstance(spec, compat_str):
+            spec = spec.encode('ascii')
+        return struct.unpack(spec, *args)
+else:
+    struct_pack = struct.pack
+    struct_unpack = struct.unpack
+
+
+def read_batch_urls(batch_fd):
+    def fixup(url):
+        if not isinstance(url, compat_str):
+            url = url.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+        BOM_UTF8 = u'\xef\xbb\xbf'
+        if url.startswith(BOM_UTF8):
+            url = url[len(BOM_UTF8):]
+        url = url.strip()
+        if url.startswith(('#', ';', ']')):
+            return False
+        return url
+
+    with contextlib.closing(batch_fd) as fd:
+        return [url for url in map(fixup, fd) if url]
+
+
+def urlencode_postdata(*args, **kargs):
+    return compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(*args, **kargs).encode('ascii')
+
+
+try:
+    etree_iter = xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.iter
+except AttributeError:  # Python <=2.6
+    etree_iter = lambda n: n.findall('.//*')
+
+
+def parse_xml(s):
+    class TreeBuilder(xml.etree.ElementTree.TreeBuilder):
+        def doctype(self, name, pubid, system):
+            pass  # Ignore doctypes
+
+    parser = xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser(target=TreeBuilder())
+    kwargs = {'parser': parser} if sys.version_info >= (2, 7) else {}
+    tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
+    # Fix up XML parser in Python 2.x
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
+        for n in etree_iter(tree):
+            if n.text is not None:
+                if not isinstance(n.text, compat_str):
+                    n.text = n.text.decode('utf-8')
+    return tree
+
+
+if sys.version_info < (3, 0) and sys.platform == 'win32':
+    def compat_getpass(prompt, *args, **kwargs):
+        if isinstance(prompt, compat_str):
+            prompt = prompt.encode(preferredencoding())
+        return getpass.getpass(prompt, *args, **kwargs)
+else:
+    compat_getpass = getpass.getpass
+
+
+US_RATINGS = {
+    'G': 0,
+    'PG': 10,
+    'PG-13': 13,
+    'R': 16,
+    'NC': 18,
+}
+
+
+def parse_age_limit(s):
+    if s is None:
+        return None
+    m = re.match(r'^(?P<age>\d{1,2})\+?$', s)
+    return int(m.group('age')) if m else US_RATINGS.get(s, None)
+
+
+def strip_jsonp(code):
+    return re.sub(r'(?s)^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+\s*\(\s*(.*)\);?\s*?\s*$', r'\1', code)
+
+
+def js_to_json(code):
+    def fix_kv(m):
+        v = m.group(0)
+        if v in ('true', 'false', 'null'):
+            return v
+        if v.startswith('"'):
+            return v
+        if v.startswith("'"):
+            v = v[1:-1]
+            v = re.sub(r"\\\\|\\'|\"", lambda m: {
+                '\\\\': '\\\\',
+                "\\'": "'",
+                '"': '\\"',
+            }[m.group(0)], v)
+        return '"%s"' % v
+
+    res = re.sub(r'''(?x)
+        "(?:[^"\\]*(?:\\\\|\\")?)*"|
+        '(?:[^'\\]*(?:\\\\|\\')?)*'|
+        [a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z_0-9]*
+        ''', fix_kv, code)
+    res = re.sub(r',(\s*\])', lambda m: m.group(1), res)
+    return res
+
+
+def qualities(quality_ids):
+    """ Get a numeric quality value out of a list of possible values """
+    def q(qid):
+        try:
+            return quality_ids.index(qid)
+        except ValueError:
+            return -1
+    return q
+
+
+DEFAULT_OUTTMPL = '%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s'
+
+try:
+    subprocess_check_output = subprocess.check_output
+except AttributeError:
+    def subprocess_check_output(*args, **kwargs):
+        assert 'input' not in kwargs
+        p = subprocess.Popen(*args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, **kwargs)
+        output, _ = p.communicate()
+        ret = p.poll()
+        if ret:
+            raise subprocess.CalledProcessError(ret, p.args, output=output)
+        return output
+
+
+def limit_length(s, length):
+    """ Add ellipses to overly long strings """
+    if s is None:
+        return None
+    ELLIPSES = '...'
+    if len(s) > length:
+        return s[:length - len(ELLIPSES)] + ELLIPSES
+    return s
+
+
+def version_tuple(v):
+    return [int(e) for e in v.split('.')]
+
+
+def is_outdated_version(version, limit, assume_new=True):
+    if not version:
+        return not assume_new
+    try:
+        return version_tuple(version) < version_tuple(limit)
+    except ValueError:
+        return not assume_new